History revisionism; Dan Rather - Mary Mapes. Some coverage for those who are too young to know the story

The movie ‘Truth’ is as bogus as the original attempt to smear George W. Bush’s wartime service.
. . . The creative minds behind “Truth”—based on a book by the CBS report’s producer, Mary Mapes—have wrapped Mr. Rather and Ms. Mapes in a glow of heroic martyrdom so impenetrable there’s hardly a line not put to its service. When, toward the end, all involved in the report face firing, the film’s fatherly Dan Rather asks a young producer what made him want to go into journalism.
“ 'You,” comes the answer.
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"In the years since this affair, Mr. Rather and Ms. Mapes have held fast to their regularly repeated assertions that whatever mistakes may have been made, they had reported a true story.
“ 'Truth”—starring Cate Blanchett as Mary Mapes facing down the enemies of the good and the true—is the latest iteration of the Mapes-Rather claim that the validity of their story wasn’t compromised merely because the supporting testimony was fabricated."

Dan Rather, Mary Mapes and the Busting of the Mainstream Media Monopoly

. . . "There is no doubt in anybody's mind that these two people made this story up or accepted a forged bunch of documents that contributed to it being a story because they wanted to effect the outcome of the 2004 race.  And so a movie has been made recounting the entire episode based on a biography written by Mary Mapes.  Now, the reason for the movie is very sympathetic to Rather and Mary Mapes and leaves open the possibility that they're the ones that got screwed, that they really were on to something. 

"The reason this is done, -- again, just to remind you -- is not just to save or protect or maybe reconstitute the reputations of these people.  It is for people who are not born yet. " . . .
2004: CBS Apologizes for Report on Bush Guard Service  . . . "Network officials yesterday admitted that the man who gave them the documents had lied about where he got them, and that inconsistencies in the cloak-and-dagger account he gave them in the past few days had left CBS unable to say definitively where they came from. Moreover, CBS was unable to reach the person the man identified as his source, Mr. Rather said ." . . .

Mark Steyn: CBS defense of Rather hints at bigger story 2004. . . . "The following day Charles Johnson of the Little Green Footballs Web site drove a stake through your phony '70s memos by overlaying them with modern MS Word documents, whose automatic word wrap is amazingly an exact match with Lt. Col. Killian's ''typewriter.'' And every document expert agreed with Johnson your memos are junk, including your own analysts. "

Steyn: CBS Falls for Fake Memo
It took the savvy chappies at the Powerline Web site and Charles Johnson of “Little Green Footballs” about 20 minutes to spot the eerily 2004 look of the 1972 memo, and various Internet wallahs spent the rest of the day tracking down the country’s leading typewriter identification experts.